If you are able to fix it, I would be very grateful if you could upload it to this thread. I get burnt out just building one house (short attention span).

They are saving your bandwidth, you should be grateful!

Well, so far, after I updated to the latest version of AM it has not happened again.
I have several sims peeing themselves on the stairs of City Hall, but no surprise marriages as yet.

I experienced this error as well, my sim suddenly married, then everyone in China started dropping like flies and Grimmy flailing to keep up. I exited without saving and installed an updated version of AM. I don't know if this is related, but a fair amount of the NPC's, both in the 'hood and in China, have started peeing themselves and are afterwards going around stinking, revolting everyone around them.

Is this okay or will it eventually cause BFBVFS? I have no cc other than AM, and my patches are up to date.

It is unlikely that this bug has anything to do with your game being arred. How about reading this thread instead?

I am not so worried if they survive or not, I never play premade sims. I just don't want to risk screwing up my neighborhood, and I don't know if nuking the cabs with sims in will cause problems down the road. Like you said, it's more a nuisance than an actual problem.

I have two cabs stuck in my game, with sims in them. One is in front of the family I am playing (the only family I have in this neighborhood) and the other one is at the next intersection. Towderelicts fixes it for about one second as does fixall.
Would nuking the cabs be safe if there are sims in them?

I am using the latest patch, have HELS and WA installed and the AM from last night.

I know. It still works, though, after a fashion.

Tell me about it. I bought this top of the line laptop less than two years ago. At least I bought the extended warranty so I can get a new one (blu-ray player busted as well).

Have you tried setting the in-game graphics options to the minimum? That's what I am trying next.

From what I have read on many different boards, the system requirements have greatly increased with both WA and HELS. I had no problem playing the base game, it loaded beautifully, but with WA and HELS installed I am running into the same problems that you are. Even with no CC and a newly reinstalled game. First the sound goes buggy and then everything jerks along. But it is the same with or without FPS limiter.

If you have the possibility, try it on another computer and see what happens.

I believe the region is set in regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHING > SOFTWARE > Sims > The Sims 3 > SKU

Right click on SKU and change the value to whatever you need it to be.

The Awesome mod has a no-cd built in. This recipe worked for me. Also, LURK MOAR!

It's not framework fail, awesome mod works. 

So Sims3packs should be installed with the launcher? I have avoided using the launcher at all as I understood it was evil. I used Delphy's tool to convert the sims3packs to .package-files and put them in the Packages-folder under Mods. I haven't gotten them to show up yet but that may have been because I put them in the Packages-folder under HELS instead of the base game (trying that next after work).

Do the sims3packs need to be installed with the launcher again because of the recent patch? I understand it has made problems with CC not showing up.

Ok, I just last night started putting CC in my game (had to get it working first, you know). And in my ignorance I used Delphy's Multi-installer but now I see that Pescado has something called the Ts3Recompressor. Should that be used instead? Or is that an unrelated tool just meant for fixing broken sims3packs?

Thanks.

I figured out my performance problems, it was cc-related, I should have guessed.
Anyway, my game is running great and I am happy!

Oops! Don't you mean "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 High End Loft Stuff" ?

Thanks for the recipe, I am in the same boat as the OP and will give this a shot later today.


EDIT: Thanks! It worked great! But I am getting some performance problems with my DuoCore 2.1 GHz CPU and 4GB memory. TS3 is using almost 1GB of memory and 80% of the CPU, while only playing in the house, no build mode or CAS or vacations and this is after about 5-10 minutes of play. Any guesses?

@Pes: There is a set of eyebrows that will make anyone look angry. I used them on my teen son... :-D

Couldn't agree more.

That's been my conclusion as well...

Has anyone with the "REAL Final Version" noticed any difference when it comes to resource hogging etc?
If not, I think I will continue with the one I have...

Try turning off internet before starting the game. Do you get the same result?

Actually, I am ESL as well. Norwegian, born and raised. I wasn't trying to poke the n00b, rather, I was just trying to save the n00b from the sharks.

If you don't do a search or try to write proper English you won't last long here at MATY...